Improvement in corsets



PATENTED Nov. so, 1869.

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H; A. LMAN 'QoRsET No. 97,418. PATENTED Nov. so, 1869.

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UNITED STTEs IIEAtrErrrN vEEroE.

HENRY ALEXANDER LYMAN, OF eEEArsIDE, LONDON, ENGLAND, AssreNoE 'ro THOMSON, LANGDON a oo., OE `NEw YORK orrY.

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i Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 97,4l8, dated November 30, i869.

To all whom it may concern:

f Be it known that I, HENRY ALEXANDER YLYNDA-N, of Oheapside, in the city of London,

England, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Stays and Corsets; andl do accompanying drawings, forming part of this u speciiication, in which Figure 1 represents one-half of my improved corset laid out flat. Fig. 2 is a front view of a complete corset. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 represent, respectively, the waistband, bust and hip pieces, and the gore.

Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts.

This invention relates to an improvement on the stays and corsets manufactured under the patent of. Edward Drucker, and patented in the United States on the 7th day of May, 18o/7, No. 64,530.' A v v The chief novelty of that invention consisted in obtain ing the fullness required to shape the corset to the body ofthe wearer by the use of a waistband with curved top and bottom edges,

and to which pleccs were sewed, theircontact edges being the converse of the waistband.

This cut of corset had not merely themerit of simplicity, but it prevented the tension or strain put on the laced lcorset being thrown entirely on the stitching, as heretofore, and enabled the cloth forming the waistband to receive the strain.,

l In order to retain these advantages, and at the same time to improve theshape of the corset,.to.insnre greater comfort, and to adapt it to the requirements of the most fastidious taste, I modify its construction by extending the waistband at its ends to the upper and lower edgesy of the corset, so that the bust 4andhip pieces must be put in it as gores. The ,strain on top and bottom is thereby re- Vmoved, and amore comfortable corset pro duced.

Each half of. the corset consists, mainly, of three pieces, as in the original Druckers corset, which pieces are shown detached in Sheet I, and marked, respectively, A, B, and C.

ceiving the gore-piece D.

The top or bust gore-piece B is so shaped f by having a long topv edge as to produce a slight fullness at the lpart where it joins the forked limb, and the lower or hip piece C is shaped elliptic, to'produce considerable fullness and to iit well over the hip.

The forked limb of the H-shaped waistband is'intended-to receive a gore-piece, D, which provides for the fullness of the bosom. This gore-piece D maybe increased or diminished in width, to snit busts of more or less fullness, without interfering with the cut of the other parts of the stay or corset.

When these parts are sewed together, ribs of steel or whalebone are applied to the corset, as usual, to 'give it a permanent set, as shown in Fig. 2. A

The advantages of the common verticallydivided corset are by this invention combined with those of Druckers horizontally-divided corset,'greater comfort being thereby insured to the wearer.

I am aware that a corset is in public use which consists of siX pieces-namely, a ton gued front piece, a back piece, two hip-gores, and two bosom-gores,while mine consists of eight pieces-namely, twowaist-piecesA, two bustpieces B, two hip-pieces C, two bosom-gores D, and th ey are dilferent in shape, and arranged differently withregard to each other.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by'Letters Pat- 

